Basin-rack for bath-tubs



(No Model.)

L. D. RUTH.

BASIN RACK FOR BATH TUBS.

Patented Feb. 19, 1889;

flu/611101 ZouddI-Rut/v y 71113 uliiormogS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS RUTH, 0F PI'ITLADELPI'IIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BASIN RACK FOR BATH -TUBS..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,349, dated February19, 1889.

Application filed November 22, 1837. gerial No. 255,887. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS D. RUTH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Philai delphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certainImprovements in Basin-Racks for Bath-Tubs,

of which the following is a specification.

The ob ect of my invention is to so construct a basin-supporting rackfor bath-tubs i that it can be readily adapted to tubs of differentwidths and readily applied to or re- 1 moved therefrom, and this objectI attain in the manner hereinafter set forth, reference Fig. 4 is aperspective view of the rack as folded up when not in use.

The rack consists of a series of strips, A l), crossing each other at anangle and pivoted together at their (Tossing-points, on the lazytongsprinciple, so that the strips are free to assume different angles inrespect to each 1 other, and the rack can be expanded in one directionby contracting it in a direction at i right angles thereto.

At each end of each of the central strips, A and B, of the rack is ahanger, D, which is preferably composed of bent and twisted wire,forming a shank, a, and an enlarged and flattened head, 7), said headsprojecting over and resting upon the front and back rails of the tub, soas to support the rack at some distance below the top of said tub, asshown in Fig. 1.

As each of the hangers l) is secured to the end of one of ihcbars of therack, and is free i from connection with any of the adjacent bars, therecan be no interference with the free expansion and contraction of therack; hence, owing to this capacity of the rack for being expanded andcontracted, it can be readily adapted to tubs of different widths, asshown in Figs. 2 and 3, and as the hangers simply rest on the rails ofthe tub the rack can be applied or removed with facility.

The shanks a of the hangers, being flexible, l

i maybe bent or twisted to any extent which may be required to insurethe proper pro jection of the heads 5 of the hangers over the rails ofthe tub.

To one of the bars of the rack is secured a soapcup, F, which thusbecomes a permanent I l l l t part of the rack, and as it is secured toone of the bars of the rack and free from connection with any of theadjacent bars it cannot restrict the free expansion and contraction ofthe rack.

I am aware that shelves have been con- \structed in the form of rackscomposed of bars crossing each other and connected at thecrossing-points, on the lazy-tongs principle, and also that shelves orseats have been provided with hangers at t-he'ends, so that they may besuspended from the rails of a bath tub but such hangers were in the formof rigid flanges extending from side to side of 1 the shelf and securedthereto from side to side; hence they were different from the separateand independent hangers which I use, and which are essential when theconstruction of the rack is on the lazy-tongs principle.

I therefore claim as my invention 1. The within -dcscribedsupporting-rack for batlrtubs, said rack comprising two sets l of barscrossing each other and pivoted to gether at the crossing-points, incombination 1 with hangers each secured to the end of a bar oi the rack,but free from connection with any of the ad jaeont bars, allsubstantially as specified. 2. The combination of the rack comprising 1two sets of bars, crossing each other and pivioted together at thecrossing-points, with hangers having projectin heads and flexibleshanks, each hanger being secured to the end of a bar of the rack, butfree from connection 1 with any of the adjacent bars, all substantiall yas specified.

In testimony whereof I. have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

Loris in. RUTH.

\Vitnesses: 7

WILLIAM l). UONNER, HARRY SMITH.

